Note 137 — CABINET OF BIOGRAPHY. (continued 7)
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Mr. Adamson says, that "The sonnet does not allude to any particular situation but certainly the line
Eu crendo que o lugar me defendia,
alludes to its being a church, which, as is well known, is in Catholic counties, where young ladies are so much shut up, a usual place for falling in love.—Lope de Vega alludes to this circumstance and the similarity between the loves of Petrarch and Camoens—
El culto celestial se celebrava Del mayor Viernes en la Iglesia pia, Quando por Laura Franco se encendia, y Liso por Natercia se inflamava.
Liso and Natercia were the anagrams which Camoens framed of his own and his lady's Christian name—his own, Luis, being frequently spelt Lois.